| TREASURYBONDS | Fixed-term debt securities issued by the Crown, typically with three-month, six-month and one-year maturities (8,5) |
| GOVERNMENTBONDS | Securities issued by the U.S. Treasury |
| APRIL | Thought to be from "to open", in allusion to the opening of buds and blossoms in spring, name of the fourth month and one whose "showers may bring flowers", according to folklore (5) |
| NODS | Acknowledges Poles taking on short term debt |
| JUNKBONDS | Debt securities with poor credit ratings (9) |
| LIENS | Debt securities |
| OCTANT | After short month six-footer joined part of circle (6) |
| ADAR | Month six months after 20 Across (4) |
| TWOINTHEBUSH | 1966 book by Gerald Durrell describing a six-month tour of New Zealand, Australia and Malaya with the BBC Natural History Unit |
| AMUNDSEN | The ____-Scott research station is the earth's only inhabited place with 6-month days and nights |
| TRIMESTER | One of the three, three-month terms into which human pregnancy is divided (9) |
| CYGNET | Seal discussed, little one owned by the Crown, perhaps? (6) |
| GAD | An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six month |
| CITY | In the UK, status awarded to a large town by the Crown (4) |
| DIADEM | I'm dead upset by the crown! |
| ROYALCOMMISSION | Princely money paid to seller by body nominated by the Crown (5,10) |
| LUCKNOW | City in northern India. scene of a six-month siege of British forces by rebel sepoys in 1857 (7) |
| PAPALBULL | A formal document issued by the pope, traditionally sealed with a leaden seal (5,4) |
| CALM | Keep - and Carry On; slogan issued by the Ministry of Information in 1939 (4) |
| MICHEL | ____ Barnier, served a three-month term as prime minister of France in 2024 (6) |
